2017 Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards Now Available
NEW YORK – Behind the Scenes’ 2017 Holiday Cards are now on sale. Orders will be taken until September 29, 2017 to arrive by mid-November.
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Elation Fuze PAR Z175 LED Wash
Elation’s new Fuze PAR Z175 is a full-color LED PAR light designed for use in all types of stage wash applications, from theatre, TV studio and HoW environments to touring and special events. It extends tie Fuze series that Elation launched last year. This series of LED wash fixtures aims to improve upon the pixelated lens face of ordinary LED PAR fixtures by replicating the classic look of old-school pars and moving wash fixtures.
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TAD Associates Selects Analog Way’s Ascender Switchers
NEW YORK – When TAD Associates was asked to update two conference rooms for a major New York Financial Institution the AV Consultant chose Analog Way’s Ascender 48. The multi-screen seamless switchers drive new LED displays and edge blended projection systems.
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Stormzy Tours U.K. with Claypaky Mythos2 Fixtures
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LONDON – LD Steven Bewley chose Claypaky’s Mythos2 luminaire for British Grime artist Stormzy’s recent U.K. tour. Bewley, who has worked with rap artists such as Dizzee Rascal and Tinie Tempah, was head-hunted by Stormzy after the rapper saw the designer’s work for fellow artist Wretch 32.
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Green Hippo and Okulus 3D Visuals Illuminate Shawn Mendes World Tour
LONDON – For Shawn Mendes’ “Illuminate” tour leg through Europe from late April to early June, production design firm Okulus worked with creative director Paul Caslin and 24/7 Productions on a visual design that included the use of Hippotizer Boreals and Taigas to feed imagery to a 1920 x 640 curved, 9mm LED wall. The visuals were triggered via timecode, and the team also integrated the video director’s live camera feeds into the content. The tour resumes for a series of North American dates from July 6 (Portland, OR) to Aug. 23 (Boston).
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Wildlife Music Festival Lights Up with Colour Sound Experiment
LANCING, U.K. – The Wild Life Festival, staged June 9-10 at Shoreham Airport (AKA Brighton City Airport) on the U.K.’s south coast, was one of more than 50 events that lighting and video rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment will be supporting this year. Wild Life, organized by SJM and curated by dance artists Rudimental and Disclosure, is now in its third year.
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Rasmus Walter Touring with Robe PicklePATTs, BMFL Blades
SKANDERBORG, Denmark – For Danish singer songwriter Rasmus Walter’s 2017 tour, which includes Smukfest 2017 in Skanderborg, Denmark in early August, LD Martin Holst designed a floor-based and cost-effective lighting / set package that includes 24 Robe picklePATT fixtures and six BMFL Blades.
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Clean Bandit Tours U.K., Europe with Solaris Flare Q+ Fixtures
ROME – British EDM act Clean Bandit are touring the U.K. and Europe this summer with a lighting design that includes 18 Solaris Flare Q+ fixtures. LD/programmer Liam Griffiths is using diffusers to hide the LED sources for a smoother look for the cameras.
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Charlotte Lockyer, Engineer at Tait, receives ABTT Technician of the Year Award
LONDON – Charlotte Lockyer, head of controls for rentals at Tait, was named Technician of the Year at the ABTT Theatre Show, which took place June 6-7 at Alexandra Palace in north London.
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Lightswitch and 4Wall LA Light Nintendo’s 2017 E3 Booth
LOS ANGELES – For Nintendo’s 2017 booth at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017, organized by the Entertainment Software Association and held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 13-15), Ralph Miller Productions and lighting and visual design studio Lightswitch once again turned to 4Wall LA for an extensive lighting package consisting of more than 500 fixtures.
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University of Delaware Equips Main Auditorium with Martin MAC Quantum Profiles
NEWARK, DE — The University of Delaware recently upgraded its main auditorium, 650-capacity Mitchell Hall, with Martin fixtures. Stephen Litterst, technical operations supervisor, chose the MAC Quantum Profile for its reliability, versatility and low-noise operation.
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Blackmagic Design Ships Remote Bluetooth Camera Control App for URSA Mini Pro
Blackmagic Design’s Blackmagic Camera Control, a free iPad app that lets customers remotely control their URSA Mini Pro cameras via Bluetooth, is now available, along with Camera 4.4 Update for URSA Mini Pro cameras. The new Blackmagic Camera Control app is based on the open protocol for URSA Mini Pro cameras that Blackmagic Design demonstrated at NAB earlier this year.
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